Improvement in recording and signal fare-boxes



E. H. SCHNELL.

RECORDING AND SIGNAL FARE-BOX.

No. 170,022, Patented Nov. 16; 1875.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

EDWARD HENRY SCHNELL, OF SOUTH NORWALK, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN RECORDING AND SIGNAL FARE-BOXES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 170,022, dated November 16, 1875; application filed March 20, 1875.

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, EDWARD HENRY SGHNELL, of South Norwalk, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and Improved Recording and Signal Fare-Box, of which the following is a specification My invention consists of a recording and alarm fare-boX, in which the record is made by punctures or slits formed in a piece of paper at the sametimethat thesignal is sounded, and there is also a separate compartment in the case of the instrument for depositing tickets as they are collected by the conductor, with a door which only opens when the signal and recording devices are actuated, so thatin order that the tickets shall agree with the record the conductor will be obliged to collect and deposit all the tickets; but for horsecars where tickets are not given out this ticketcompartment may be dispensed witln The drawing is a sectional elevation of my improved fare-box.

A represents the box, which contains a signal-bell, B, hammer C, paper-carrying rollers C D, actuating-wheel E, and push-pawl F, by which the signal is given, and at the same time the paper is moved along the rest Cr, and perforated by a point, H, the point being on one of the arms of the bell-hammer. J is a spring for throwing the push-pawl onto the actuating-wheel, and K is a spring for throwing up the pawl. The case A also contains a compartment, L, for tickets, having an inside door, M, for closing the opening N, through which the tickets are dropped, and the arm 0 2. The combination, with 'belhhammer and rolls, of the wheel E, push-pawl F, rest G, point and springs J K, all substantially as shown and described.

EDWARD HENRY SCHNELL.

Y Witnesses:

T. B. MOSHER, ALEX. F. ROBERTS. 

